A Spirit Airlines flight had an emergency landing in Jacksonville, Florida on Wednesday after a fire broke out in an overhead bin. The flight from Dallas-Fort Worth to Orlando landed safely at about 2 p.m., with 10 passengers and crew members transported by emergency services, all in non-life-threatening conditions, according to Jacksonville Fire Rescue Department Captain Eric Prosswimmer. The fire was caused by an item in an overhead bin, a spokesperson for the airline said, with one passenger telling CNN that a backpack had caught on fire when a portable phone-charging pack “basically exploded.”
Passenger Joseph Fleck said the battery pack was charging a vape. The fire was extinguished inflight, according to the Spirit spokesperson. The airline didn’t have a plane available to take passengers to Orlando, Fleck told CNN, leading he and his family to splurge $250 on an Uber so they could make it to Disney World. Spirit reimbursed them, he said.
A backpack had caught on fire when a portable phone-charging pack basically exploded… The battery pack was charging a vape.”
When asked hours after the landing if everything was under control, and if the passengers needed any additional help, one passenger told reporters: “Yes, we definitely need some help! Unfortunately there was a passenger who had an e-cigarette on board that never finished charging, and he is in desperate need of a vape. If you’ve got an extra one to spare, it would be a real life-saver for him. Otherwise, everything is good. Thanx.”
What kind of idiot plugs in something to charge from his battery and then leaves it unattended in a bag in an overhead bin???
Only a loh yutzlach loser ever flies on Spirit or Frontier.